Senior Customer Data Scientist

About Datadog

Datadog helps developers, data teams, and business users ship and learn fast—combining observability, security, feature flagging, and experimentation into one unified platform. Our tools power innovation across the modern enterprise, helping organizations deliver faster, more reliable digital experiences while continuously learning from their data. We’re growing rapidly and building new capabilities that put Datadog at the forefront of experimentation, inference, and product development tooling.

About The Team

Eppo, now part of Datadog, is building the experimentation platform that powers the world’s most innovative companies—including Coinbase, Perplexity, and DraftKings. Our team of experimenters helps organizations run trustworthy, high-velocity experiments that drive real business outcomes. We bring cutting-edge causal inference methods to bear across a wide range of experiment types and literacy levels, from simple A/B tests to advanced techniques like holdouts, bandits, and synthetic controls.

As part of the Eppo Solutions team within Datadog, you’ll work closely with customers to help them succeed with experimentation—guiding them through design, interpretation, and operational best practices, and ensuring that experimentation becomes a core capability within their business. You’ll be at the forefront of shaping how the world’s leading companies run experiments at scale. At Datadog, you’ll join a collaborative, growth-oriented environment with competitive salary, equity, and benefits—where your expertise in data science and experimentation directly contributes to the success of our customers and our business.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

Serve as a technical and analytical partner to customers evaluating Datadog’s experimentation capabilities during pre-sales engagements.

Support proofs of concept by helping customers configure metrics, validate data pipelines, and design statistically sound experiments.

Educate customers on best practices in experiment design, metric definition, and interpretation—spanning product A/B tests, marketing lifecycle tests, pricing and packaging, and AI/ML experimentation.

Provide post-sales enablement and training, ensuring customers adopt strong analytical and experimental habits within Eppo and Datadog.

Collaborate with Product and Engineering to represent customer feedback and influence product direction.

Partner with Sales and Solutions leadership to identify opportunities, overcome objections, and build champions within customer organizations.

Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and presentations that raise the bar for data-driven experimentation across the company.

Who You Are

You have

4+ years of professional data science experience

with a strong foundation in

statistics, inference, and experimental design

.

You have run

many A/B experiments

across multiple companies or products, and are comfortable applying advanced methods such as

holdouts, bandits, synthetic controls, or geolift tests

.

You’re fluent in

SQL

and experienced enough with

data engineering concepts

to diagnose issues in customer data warehouses and pipelines.

You thrive in customer-facing settings—able to communicate complex analytical ideas clearly, handle objections thoughtfully, and build trust with both technical and non-technical audiences.

You are an

active listener

, able to sense what’s said and what’s not said in conversations, and you adjust your approach accordingly.

You enjoy teaching, simplifying, and elevating others’ analytical capabilities.

You are motivated by impact—you want your work to influence real business outcomes like customer success, win rates, and revenue growth.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience Supporting Enterprise Customers In A

solutions, pre-sales, or consulting

capacity.

Familiarity with tools like

dbt, Airflow, or similar analytics orchestration systems

.

Prior exposure to

B2B SaaS

or

cloud infrastructure analytics

environments.

Demonstrated thought leadership in experimentation—talks, posts, or internal education initiatives.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & Growth

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

An inclusive company culture, with the ability to join our Community Guilds

Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions

Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The Reasonably Estimated Yearly Salary For This Role At Datadog Is

$187,000

—

$240,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on

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